What can a down-and-out, a crusading Calvinist and a wealthy business man have in common, apart from the fact that they all died from a blow to the head? Inspector Jim Bulmer has to weave his way through a web of conspiracy and corruption to find the answer. Meanwhile Inspector Rory MacDonald and Constable Alan Ferguson find themselves involved not only in modern day murder and intrigue among Edinburgh’s finest but with a hundred year old mystery. Is the house at Minton Terrace really haunted or is it the imaginings of an emotionally unstable woman? And what possible connection can it have to the three murders?   This is the second book featuring the team of Edinburgh detectives. Set in the city, a number of episodes in the book are based around real incidents but all characters are fictional.

Tom Hubbard sets aside his customary international questings in order to view Scotland - his native Fife, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, small town life - through a series of unsettling masks and welcomes you ro his Caledonian carnival...